By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The poll shows a decrease in the percentage of those who believe that armed struggle is the most effective means of ending the Israeli occupation.
Two NGOs revealed that from 2017 to 2019, the Postal Bank transferred some NIS 100 million ($31 million) from the PA to terrorists for use at prison canteens.
The UN reporting "often omits the 'implementing partners' that receive the funding to carry out the programs."
The “Removal of New Structures” order is an effective enforcement tool that makes it possible to streamline the law enforcement process.
By Edwin Black
Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator, was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital when he faced a COVID-19 respiratory crisis.
Major (res.) Shai Maimon said it was "an absurd situation in which there is an explicit law requiring the government to punish the PA for supporting terrorism, yet the government is disregarding it."
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
Quietly, a planting event conducted with PA regional governor accompanied by gunman, without coordination with the IDF.
Jerusalem, Hebron, and Gaza have registered more than 100 new cases each.
The Palestinian Authority is opposed to the project, saying it is part of a collaboration between Israel and Hamas to expand the split between the PA and the Strip.
The voices emerging from the Gaza Strip are anguished and reflect the Palestinians' growing sense of disillusionment with Hamas. These voices, however, are still small in numbers. Hamas's brutal methods of suppression and torture have deterred a large number of Palestinians from speaking out. These voices will grow only if the international community heeds them and calls out Hamas for its brutal crackdown on Palestinians.
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Some 20,000 Arabs rioted on Shabbat at several locations along the Gaza Strip border fence, torching tires and throwing explosive charges at IDF soldiers.
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The World Bank press release does not mention Hamas, possibly because the authors take it for granted that Hamas is the chief culprit in the demise of Gaza's economy, so there's no need to mention it.
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The Trump administration on Monday announced it is closing the PLO office in Washington, DC, cutting off the Palestinian Authority's ability to maintain its diplomatic mission to the US.
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The news report comes just hours after a State Department official said the United States would redirect more than $200 million earmarked for economic aid to the PA and Gaza to projects elsewhere.
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Levy repeats the mantra that only the complete return of Judea and Samaria to the Arabs would guarantee the desired, long-lasting peace.
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The Palestinian Central Council decided on the suspension of recognition of the State of Israel until it recognizes the State of Palestine.
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Why haven't the PLO and Hamas permitted these three million or so people to turn their tent and shack cities into actual cities? Because if they do, it would mean they have given up the hope of returning to Israel.
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During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."
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The leaders of Hamas and the PA are responsible for a series of human rights violations, torture and ongoing abuse of the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank.
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"Expelling the families of terrorists, removing the lavish benefits terrorists receive in prison, and legislating the death penalty would undoubtedly reduce the number of terror attacks and save innocent Israeli lives."
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"Only after that, we will make a decision on our embassy move," Bogdanov said.
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They are seriously concerned over in Ramallah about President Trump's apparent plan to go over their heads to the people and give them what they need: prosperity.
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Bishop said has been in communication with the PA Foreign Minister to make sure the money her country sends Ramallah—an estimated $43 million—will only be spent on good things.
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“Congressman Young’s vision in initiating and introducing this bill is timely, remarkable, and potentially extremely significant in offering young Palestinians a peaceful vision for the future.”
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It should be noted that resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly have no binding power.
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The IDF, at this stage, is not necessarily disputing the PLO story, declaring instead: "The findings of the investigations are transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Office."
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Friday that the PA had violated a provision in a US law which says the PLO mission in DC would be closed down should the PA approach the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against PA Arabs.
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'Never has there been a national independence movement that has refused an independence offer on the grounds that it does not include all the territory the movement seeks.'
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is considered a terror organization by the US and the EU.
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Hamas responded that "Greenblatt's statement and the demand for a Palestinian unity government to recognize Israel and renounce violence came under pressure from the right-wing government in Israel."
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Sooner or later, this shiny package of a reconciliation is bound to fall apart, since it makes no sense.
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A source in Ramallah noted that Abbas' internal political rivals, headed by Muhammad Dahlan, are much more likely to find themselves under an Interpol extradition order than Israeli officials.
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"You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals."
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The most serious meaning of the PA's acceptance is that they will now be receiving sensitive information related to the war on terror.
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The Russian top diplomat reminded his audience of the PLO's failure to embrace Israeli generous offers in Camp David and Annapolis in the US.
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Even though almost 55% of respondents believe the peace process should be resumed, some 80% believe it is dead.
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The PA's budget allots just under $170 a month to welfare families, while the maximum monthly payment to a security prisoner is about $3,340.
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The school was inspected and items were confiscated during the riots on and outside the Temple Mount in mid-July.
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During the course of 2016, he contacted two residents of the liberated territories via the Internet and arranged for them to recruit additional members to carry out grenade attacks in Jerusalem.
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In 2016 the PA paid 26,800 killed terrorists' families a total $183 million, and 6,500 terrorist prisoners $135 million.
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The pressure to go ahead with the bill came from rightwing Likud members, as well as from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu).
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The Americans inserted the clause into the document, but it was eventually removed under pressure from Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) and senior Likud officials.
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President Trump reportedly yelled at PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Ramallah, accusing him of reneging on his commitment to cut off payments to security prisoners and their families.
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According to a PLO senior official, cooperation with Israel to improve the lives of Arabs living under PA rule must be stopped, just in time for the water shortages of July and August.
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Hamas was outraged last year when one of their members was killed by the IDF, which had been told when he would be released by PA security.
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By 4 PM, voter turnout was at 274,152, or 35.3% of the 787,386 eligible registered voters.
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Hamas is second only to the PLO in its leadership's depth of corruption.
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The meeting will pay special attention paid to the PA's 'struggle against terrorism.'
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It may be time for Israel to prepare for a tough and painful fight with yet another 'friendly' White House.
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So, why can't we all just get along already?
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The PA appears determined to enforce the strike, and many civilians have been blocked from entering the major cities and forced to return home.
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'President Trump will soon have to decide if confronting the Palestinians on that terrorist incitement is more urgent than pursuing a pathway to peace.'
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'This is the way to respect international law as well as the security of Israel.'
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'For too long the UN has been unfairly biased in favor of the Palestinian Authority to the detriment of our allies in Israel.'
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Congress had been looking at the PA's unilateral attempts at statehood, corruption, incitement of violence, and paying salaries terrorists in jail, which is why Congress put a hold on the payment.
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The poll also reveals that the vast majority of the Israeli public believe that a Palestinian state will not be established because of persistent refusal on behalf of the Palestinian Authority Arabs.
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The imam of the Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque in Ramallah warned that moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would 'engulf the region in the flames.'
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday condemned attempts by the incoming Republican president to move the American embassy, saying it would send the Middle East peace process and the entire world into a “crisis.”
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Liberman said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was not seeking peace, and said he incited violence rather than work against it.
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The source noted that, despite their "dissatisfaction" with these requests, the PA leadership will restrain itself and avoid any UNSC move until after the elections.
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A Russian Foreign Ministry official told Tass on Thursday that Russia is "responding to the appeals of the Palestinians and Israelis."
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We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.
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What is being presented as an ideological warfare between political factions in the PA, is, in fact, turf war between criminal enterprises.
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It should be noted that the Oslo Accords forbid the participation of terror organizations in PA elections, but Hamas has already set a precedence in 2006.
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According to Liberman, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been an obstacle to a working solution for the area.
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A search for "Palestine" in Google Maps does yield a proper reference to the entity, but with a blank map of Israel, with the areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria marked with a broken borderline but not mentioned by name.
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Erekat has raised the flame under his attacks on Israel for its audacious killing of Arab terrorists, looking to link it in the Europeans' minds the horror Arab terrorists are inflicting on their civilian population.
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Hamas is hoping to capitalize on its popularity in the PA, where the public has had enough of the corrupt PLO leadership.
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So now it's been established, the goose really hates it when the gander is doing goosey things, and sees nothing funny about it.
The 16-year-old was selling a snack to motorists at a checkpoint and then ran with a knife to stab guards. He was killed on the spot.
The four-year-old girls suffered burns on 35 percent of her body. The terrorist escaped.
State Dept. Spokesperson says Mahmoud Abbas is "president of Palestine."
The Abbas regime promotes hurling rocks to murder Jewish motorists, while his Fatah party prefers knives.
The Prime Minister kept the connection of the Muslim leader with Hitler in the headlines just prior to visiting Germany.
One of the terrorists was killed, and a second one was captured.
The Secretary of State said in Madrid, where the "peace process' officially started 24 years ago, that Israel knows it must keep the status quo.
Lapid is the only opposition party leader who is giving Netanyahu some kind of support instead of trying to bring down the house.
"This reprehensible act is yet another example of the escalating violence in the region [but] all sides [must] respect the sanctity of all holy sites."
The Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft resolution to declare the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb and the Patriachs Cave as "Palestinian."
Hizzoner is in Israel this weekend. Unlike his predecessors, he planned a trip to a Ramallah school, but the wave of terror nixed it.
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Arabs burned the site that the Palestinian Authority is committed by the Oslo Accords to guard and to allow access by Jews.
The man whose blinders have contributed to the current violence now says he will return "soon" to "try to work to re-engage."
Wednesday was relatively quiet, but everything is relative. On a "normal" day, today's rock-throwing attacks would be headlined.
The obscene and gross Arab lie finally is starting to dissolve.
The "tough guy" also says to kill and not injure terrorists, cancel citizenship of Jerusalem terrorists and impose army rule where necessary.
Israeli Arabs are raising their voices against their own MKS and terror that are ruining normal life for Arabs.
The "Million Man March" in Washington was held under the threatening slogan of "Justice or Else."
The terrorist was alarmed with a shotgun and knife when he infiltrated into the Jewish community Friday night.
Kerry told Abbas to stop incitement, and he in turn blamed Israeli settlers for provoking violence.
The Prime Minister will meet with radical Islamic leaders Sunday simultaneous with a clampdown on incitement.
The Muslim narrative of anarchy that played out in Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Libya is going to destroy the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.
Muslims accuse Jews of trying to take over the Temple Mount, but statistics prove it is a lie.
The policeman suffered light wounds, and the terrorist was shot dead.
The Prime Minister used his speech as a cover-up to spar with Opposition leader Herzog.
Arab social media are overloaded with photos of the bodies of the Henkins. Jewish leaders urge Obama to say "enough."
There is one problem with the Palestinian Authority version: The church was under renovations and was without electricity.
IDF and police are using a heavy hand against terror. Palestinian Authority media claim two killed and hundreds wounded.
He met with the Security Cabinet Monday night to secure approval for the use of a heavy hand against terror.
The State Dept. also is "concerned about mounting tensions" on the Temple Mount, without suggesting the source of the conflict.
The Palestinian Authority has taken one more step towards oblivion.